The Clippers bench celebrates a 3-point shot in the first half, but things didn't go their way in the second. MICHAEL GOULDING, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER

OAKLAND – I just had to ask Doc Rivers.

“Now that you have worked for Sterling, do you think it will be easier to work for Jim Buss?”

Rivers laughed and he hasn’t done much of that lately.

“I was waiting for something,” Rivers said. “I’ll say no comment to all of those things, but it was good. It was good. Thank you.”

We sure do live in a great area for sports gone berserk, Mike D’Antoni walking away from a guaranteed $4 million to coach the vaunted Lakers organization and Magic Johnson tweeting: “Happy days are here again! Mike D’Antoni resigns as the Lakers coach. I couldn’t be happier!”

Magic already sounds like the next Clippers owner if a lack of class is still going to remain a part of the franchise’s legacy.

There is also a report that former boxer Oscar De La Hoya is interested in owning the Clippers, a cross-dresser obviously better than a racist.

I guess the same can be said about someone who has served time for domestic abuse like Floyd Mayweather. We could count on him punching anyone out, man or woman, who says something racist if he was owner of the Clippers.

What next? Former NBA commissioner David Stern announcing he is sorry for leaving Sterling in power and as amends suggesting to Adam Silver that Chris Paul should be awarded to the Lakers?

Well, I’ve got one for you. The controversy of the day was the Oklahoman newspaper running the headline “Mr. Unreliable” atop a picture of Oklahoma City’s Kevin Durant, and then because of local backlash, apologizing for it.

Our very own Kings owner Philip Anschutz owns the Oklahoman.

I have just written 10 paragraphs about sports gone haywire in our backyard and haven’t even mentioned Angry Arte and his troop of underachievers.

And I have been busy, so I haven’t heard anything from the public relations director from the Mexican drug cartel on where it stands with Yasiel Puig.

I’m telling you, things are so zany around here I wouldn’t put it past one of our yahoo editors to suggest I start growing a beard and write about some local hockey match.

I’m left to ponder all this while stationed in Oakland for a few hours, and do you know people actually live here? Everyone I’ve met is wearing a free yellow T-shirt, and pretty darn excited about the wardrobe upgrade.

And they are on their feet, Golden State not playing fair as it brings out a 9-year-old cutie with blue bow in her hair to sing the national anthem.

She smiles when the fireworks go off above her head, holding the crowd in her little hands as she reaches out to them and stops to accept the crowd’s raucous cheers halfway through.

By the time she’s done she has Oracle Arena busting with noise, the message clear to the Warriors: Are you going to let this little darling down?

If this goes to a seventh game the Clippers might have to counter the little darling with a show-stopper of their own. Can Magic sing?

The Clippers are the better team, and that was before DeAndre Jordan took his vitamins. The Clippers’ center turned this series in his team’s favor in Game 5, and he starts Game 6 the same way. Maybe he’s under the impression Oprah is now watching the Clippers.

But it’s 25-25 after one quarter, and so exciting that Dodgers VP Lon Rosen has taken off his sports coat while sitting in the front row and put on a “Loud. Proud. Warriors’’ yellow T-shirt. He’s too far away to hear if he’s yelling, “Beat L.A.” like everyone else.

The Warriors are already playing this series without big man Andrew Bogut, and after tangling with the Clippers’ Glen Davis, Jermaine O’Neal injures his right leg and goes to the locker room. Everything is going the Clippers’ way, the crowd also letting it be known the referees are trying to help them as well.

As much attention as the Clippers have drawn the past few days, now that they are playing basketball again, it would be interesting to know if anyone cares.

They have a three-point halftime lead, but that’s with Lakers broadcaster Mychal Thompson’s kid, Klay, playing like a Laker with no baskets yet.

The game grinds to a crawl after the half, but the Warriors get the break they need when Paul picks up a fourth foul. At the same time Blake Griffin forgets how to dominate, and when stymied he becomes a jump shooter. He even attempts a 3-pointer, and the Warriors are thrilled.

Golden State now has the three-point lead after three quarters, the quarter ending with Jamal Crawford believing he was fouled and looking like he was going to foul the referee for not blowing the whistle. He was pulled back by teammates, lucky because the official was looking the other way.

Forget everything I wrote about Jordan earlier, he’s reverted to form and has disappeared, while Paul and Griffin are struggling to find their form.

And so here we go, do we get a Game 7 in L.A. on Saturday night?

The way things have been going, it’s almost a given.

The Warriors have a seven-point lead with 2:31 to play and Griffin fouls out, but the Clippers make it a two-point game, and then close to one in a furious final few seconds. But lose.

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